PM40938503 WHERE CORPORATE PLAYERS COME TO PLAY… Spring 2009

Work Hard...Play Hard team-building events such as Mini- Corporate Advertising & Hold your next meeting or function at Olympics, Amazing Race and /or Sponsorship Opportunities Chicopee Ski & Summer Resort & enjoy Scavenger Hunt style games. Take Advantage of the 275,000 people our beautiful natural setting. • Adventure Challenge Centre who play and discover Chicopee by teambuilding facilitation on our low getting involved in our corporate • Meeting space to accommodate all ropes, high ropes and climbing wall sponsorship programs. Sponsorships groups from 10 to 340. courses. include complimentary memberships. Your Year Round Playground • Close to 401 & Expressway. Central • Corporate ticket booklets and to Kitchener, Guelph, Cambridge & consignment programs. Waterloo. Free Parking. For more information please • For winter: Ask about our private ski contact Vicki Stevanus Chicopee... Package your meeting along with: Message from the hill bookings. 519-894-5610 ext 242 or email • On-site Food & Beverage. Order from Your Year Call us to see our rooms or arrange a [email protected] to the menu or customizable packages to Executive Director quote for your next business meeting, Discover Chicopee today! suit your budget. awards ceremony, party or social Round Playground! • Summer Program electives. Choose gathering. Plan a great day away from It is hard to believe that it’s been a year I’ve count of approximately 275,000 visits to our from tennis, mountain biking, beach the office to reward staff and valued volleyball and our new 18 hole disc had the opportunity of working at Chicopee. facility. Winter is no longer the only time Green Season customers. golf course. We also customize fun I felt it proper to provide an overview: past, the facility is vibrant with an ever increasing present and future. usage in the off season. The facility is NEW! Disc Golf Let me begin with acknowledging a significant part and landmark of a Chicopee’s 75th Anniversary which neighborhood. It is often utilized as a bench NEW Bike Park officially takes place on December 29, 2009. mark or a showcasing for what makes our Location I often wonder what those pioneers were community and region so popular to move Tennis thinking when they decided to open a ski to or to consider when opening a business. hill in the middle of no where. In speaking Members and visitors to our facility come Mountain Biking with some of our from all over to take advantage of what members who we have in our Beach Volleyball have been skiing own backyard. at Chicopee for (Hamilton, St NEW years, they talk Catharine’s, Options Summer Camps about the Great , Spirit the Club Brantford, 4 & 8 Week brought to the Woodstock). community. Many Chicopee Lesson Programs people reflect has always on the time their made skiing/ Adventure families spent here. Even today as affordable Challenge Course their children are as other sports (Low Ropes, High Ropes such as hockey, coming back with Climbing Wall) their families to figure skate enjoy the same or synchro culture and swimming to Coming Year Round mention a few. Soon! experience. This Memberships is what makes Often skiing/ Chicopee such a snowboarding great facility for has been seen Monthly Buy One, Get One FREE Offer the whole region. to be very Payment Plans Buy one & receive a second of equal or lesser value for the same day free of charge. A few have often indicated that if the walls expensive. could speak many stories could be told. We Throughout the year Chicopee raises funds Two Hours Tennis or do have a committee working on events for our Community Investment Program. Bike Park or to help us celebrate the 75th Anniversary. This program consists of three pillars being NEW! Outdoor Fitness Trail Day Pass Beach Volleyball court rental Keep watching our newsletters and the local Athletic Development, Track 3 (Disabled papers for upcoming events. Skiers) and our own “Everyone Plays”. Our Programs for the price of one •Boot Camps Where are we now? Well Chicopee, “your “Everyone Plays” program allows children Coupon has no cash value, may or may not be used with of the communities who surround us with a •Bike Clinics any other offer or ticket already purchased Valid until June 20/09 year round playground” can boast in excess of 4500 members along with an annual premiere sport experience all year round. •Run Clinics Publication Mail Agreement No. 40938503. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Continued on next page... Chicopee 396 Morrison Rd. Kitchener, ON N2A 2Z6 email: [email protected] Buy your membership and register for Lesson Programs & Camps online @ www.skichicopee.com NEW Sign up 75th Anniversary at ski Message from the Executive Director March Break Camps Updates ...Continued from previous page chicopee. Looking to put some fun into your March as well if you can only make it for one or two The goal we work towards is removing the to ensure the next 75 years will have a Chicopee – “It’s where you belong” Break. Get out on the slopes at Chicopee. Join days...not the whole week. •Chicopee 75th Birthday is December 29th, economic barrier for children who wish significant impact on the region. com The great outdoors at Chicopee provides in on our exciting March Break Camps. We 2009. Send us your stories. What does to participate in any of our programs and For the hardcore, you should check out our To do this, we’ll require the support from you with a unique opportunity to ‘belong’ offer 2 Hour Cubs Program (ages 4-6), Bruins Chicopee mean to you and your family? activities but do not have the means to do March Break Terrain Park Camp that runs all for the our community at large and the region as with friends and family. Chicopee offers 2 Hour Program (ages 7 -14) for skiers and [email protected] it. We’re proud every time we can give week. a whole with our various campaigns to programs for all ages and abilities, snowboarders, as well as Full Day Programs back to the community. Sign up online or at Guest Services. Bi-Weekly make things happen. We’ll be asking the available at many different times to meet for ages 7 -14. The Full Day Program is flexible •Do you have items to share? We’re putting Another significant position about corporate community to jump on board, everyone’s busy schedule. Call us at 519 together some pieces of Chicopee’s history on eDrenaline Chicopee is its contribution to the the various levels of government and the 894-5610 to enquire about these or better display over the winter. If you have an item community from a business perspective. general public. We trust we can count on yet check us out at you’d like others to see, please contact us at: Chicopee This facility is not City or Government everyone to jump on board to turn this into www.skichicopee.com. Watch for our new owned but rather a not for profit self reality. programs being launched this spring right 519-894-5610. e-news sustaining through to next Ask for Marketing or business December. [email protected] delivered operation that On your own or reinvests all of FYI...The Olympic Torch comes to Kitchener new in town, ask right to your its profits back Waterloo on December 29th, 2009 on its way about our new to improve its to Vancouver. It would be great if a Chicopee Hillside Club inbox products and member could carry the torch. Learn more at that has been services for the www.carrythetorch.com created to offer benefit of users year round social from throughout opportunities the region. It pays for our members the City taxes of ALPINE Bike or others who $90k per year, FITNESS at CHICOPEE: would like to join contributes $5 LOSES A Park for a nominal As you may have heard, Chicopee will be In addition to these clinics, Chicopee will million to help membership fee. introducing new opportunities to stay fit also be introducing Boot Camps! Boot camps pump the local CHAMPION New Programs and and have fun this summer! Fitness programs will provide a very focused opportunity to get economy through different social at Chicopee will embrace the outdoors and in shape with a group of friends, coworkers, Melodina Herman 1991 -2009 employment, etc. Location activities are provide healthy & active opportunities for wedding party, etc. Groups can sign up with Chicopee, Caledon, H.A.D.T. racer the community adults to get in shape, stay in shape, and have a trainer and pick a day and time that suits being planned Melodina Herman passed away Saturday, January 10th should be proud fun. their schedule well. Boot camps will use a on a year round at 10:00pm, three years to the hour after she was first More Jump of this. variety of training tactics to improve fitness, base. This spring will see the launch of both Run & admitted to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. A bigger impact agility, flexibility, strength, and cardio vascular If your Bike Clinics. These classes will run throughout She had a three-year fight with cancer, HLH and a Lines revolves around health. Using the outdoors & natural features organization the week and will focus around a range compromised immune system. Melodina is an inspiration the facility’s keeps boot camps fun & exciting… something does annual of ability levels from beginner through to and a hero to people all over the world. Her struggle is ability to provide that concrete gym’s and cumbersome fitness 2 Pump fund raising intermediate / advanced. truly epic. She taught all of us so much in so many ways. people of all machines simply cannot offer. activities for great Clinics will be led by a bike or run coach and The primary focus of her life was ski racing. Like many ages and abilities a variety of unique A few projects being considered are: 2 Tracks community causes, why not call us about will consist of a proper warm up, a guided Looking for more info on Fitness at Chicopee? young people, she hoped one day to represent Canada at experiences. It becomes a social place new lift replacements ($1.5m each), high the fundraising initiatives available for you run or ride, and cool down. Each week will Keep your eyes on the website and sign up the Olympics. During her career, Mel raced for Chicopee, for people to meet on a regular basis. It’s pressure water lines for at Chicopee. We have packages available to cover a different topic such as hill climbs, trail for our e-newsletter, as well as our summer Caledon and the Huron Alpine Development Team. NEW! where families come to play together and ($750,000), and developing three new generate significant funds for your cause. running, cornering with speed, efficient riding planner. Dates, Times, and Prices will all be She raced in both Canada and the US. enjoy the great outdoors so close to home. runs along Fairway Road to include water Bike Park We can accommodate a few thousand or running, handling downhill’s, etc. outlined. It’s where we want to continue providing and lift capacity ($3.5m). Chicopee is also people on our slopes, even giving you a our community with opportunities for exploring some new business ventures to Camp private ski day event. Call us to discover healthy lifestyles. continue making it a viable year round more. So now we’re talking about the business. Amped Series - XC Mountain Bike Races NEW! For employers why not treat your staff future. Like many other organizations We understand the economy is becoming The AMPED series is back for another season of action following the final date. Race check in opens every night at 5:00 pm. Racers to a winter team building event on the or businesses we need to continue a challenge however it is important for on two wheels. must be at the start line prepared to ride at 6:15. Race 4 & 8 Week slopes. Good opportunity to work hard and The AMPED series is sponsored by local bike shops; repositioning ourselves to maintain our people to have places to go to enjoy the start by 6:30 SHARP. play hard. Chicopee also has year round This grassroots bike race series is an awesome training great prizes are available each week… anyone can walk existing facilities, expand to manage the great outdoors. We want Chicopee to Lesson opportunities for your organization. What opportunity for advanced riders, as well as a fun way for away a winner! The 2009 series sponsor info will be growth in our region and ways to attract be a contributor to the vibrant business AMPED DATES: a great setting for corporate meetings and/ family, kids, and beginners to introduce themselves to released shortly. May 14th, May 28th, June 11th, June 25th, tourists to come discover this great area environment in our region. Program or barbeques. Chicopee has unique gifts for biking, and racing. Race registration will be available online and at Guest of the province. Chicopee is preparing to July 9th, July 23rd the special clients or employee recognition The AMPED series will run every other week, Services. Sign up for single races, or the entire series, or launch a significant legacy building plan (Additional Weeks if required due to rain outs) programs. commencing May 14th. Rain out dates will be made up purchase a Green Season Membership & save! Buy your membership and register for Lesson Programs & Camps online @ Buy your membership and register for Lesson Programs & Camps online @ www.skichicopee.com www.skichicopee.com Tennis – the Sport for Life About Chicopee Chicopee: by Doreen Tschanz Upcoming Did you realize that “Tennis is the sport for life”? Wheelchair Tennis is compatible with regular recreationally on HarTru surface because of less Chicopee Ski & Summer Resort is a vital part of the managed by the Executive Director and Senior It is true. What other sport is played at the age of 5 players of comparative play level. stress on joints. communities (Kitchener, Waterloo, Guelph, Cambridge Management team. Chicopee leases the lands we Events and until the age 95? Even when your legs cannot On HarTru surfaces the ball has a slower bounce & surrounding areas) that we zealously serve. Offering operate on in 20 year terms from the Grand River support you, tennis can be played in a wheelchair. year round recreational programming to four of Conservation Authority. All facilities, lifts, equipment Cardio Tennis is a new, fun, group activity, allowing longer rallies, greater stroke variety and a Why is this possible? The reason is “Progressive the “Best Cities to Live in Canada” is a task we take etc. on the land is wholly owned by the Club. March 7-8 featuring drills that allow players of all abilities to more controlled game. Stamina, strategy and mental Tennis”. seriously. We don’t just want to be good…we strive to be achieve an ultimate, high energy workout. Taught toughness come into play. Most of the world’s An elected Board of Directors of ten volunteer members awesome in all that we offer; in all that we do. Chicopee Chicopee Beach Party What is the only traditional sport with growth in the by a teaching professional, Cardio Tennis includes top players started playing on clay. With HarTru represent the membership as a governance board opened in 1934 as a ski hill and the energies of those past 5 years? Tennis is that sport. Why? The reason a warm-up, cardio workout and cool-down phases. surfaces, it is easy to follow the balls on a non-glare and assist in providing support to the organization. founders has continued to this day as we strive to be a is a new “twist” on marketing tennis called “Cardio Cardio Tennis is an excellent way for new players surface. The natural green HarTru will not stain An enthusiastic team of employees conducts all of year round playground to the people we serve. Chicopee March 14 Tennis”. or present players to burn calories and get in shape. clothing as does “red clay” surfaces. Wear and tear Chicopee’s daily operations – 30 full time year– round is one of the most widely visited multi-sport facilities What are benefits of HarTru (clay) courts versus Chicopee will be a Cardio Tennis Centre starting in on shoes and tennis equipment is reduced. and 400+ seasonal and part-time employees. Chill Series Finals in . The always expanding hard surface courts? Read on. May 2009. HarTru Courts versus Hard Courts facilities throughout the 165 acres include fourteen ski Why does the ball go into the net or out of the court Major benefits are: •Reduces injuries – 85% less injuries than hard and snowboard runs, a renowned ski and snowboard Mission Statement March 14 long or wide when you hit it? It is simple. •Heart rates are consistently elevated to the aerobic courts school, five Har-Tru (clay) tennis courts, three Olympic- To provide the best possible year-round recreational The following will explain the above statements and training zone •Lessens severity of injuries – Repeated, excessive regulation beach volleyball courts, a seven+ kilometer experience and facility to the local community and Dave House Memorial beyond. questions. •More calories are burned than in singles or impact exacerbates injuries single and double track mountain bike trail system, dirt ‘Ski Everest’ doubles •Sliding reduces stress of court impact – More stress bike park (two pump tracks, seven jump lines & a flow course), wooden-feature bike park, adventure challenge Progressive Tennis is a tennis program for •There are short cycles of high intensity workout on back, knees and ankles Vision Statement Fundraiser centre teambuilding facility, 25 000 square foot chalet 5-9 year olds which allows young players to learn and periods of rest similar to interval training •Allows frequent play – Body needs recovery time Chicopee will be a leader in Southern Ontario by with meeting rooms and full food and beverage services. providing a quality, year-round recreational experience and play the game more quickly, efficiently and •The focus is mainly on getting a great workout so it •Surface is cooler – Can fry an egg successfully. Progressive Tennis uses a systematic The Chicopee Ski Club is incorporated as a not-for- and facility supported by sound partnerships within the March 16-20 does not matter what level of player you are •More durable to cold climate – Crack and heave progression of court sizes, balls, and racquets, to profit entity owned by its members and expertly local community and beyond. •Improve your tennis skills causing costly repairs March Break scale the game down to an appropriate level for 5-9 year olds. Tennis companies now carry the full line •More FUN than sitting or running on a machine Celebrate at of half-court and ¾-court progressive equipment Check out the Cardio Tennis website for more The outcome of your tennis shots relates to the including graduated balls, racquets, lay down lines information at www.partners.cardiotennis.com “Five Ball Controls”. These five simple principles Chicopee and nets. The following will explain what HarTru is and are Direction, Height, Distance, Speed and Spin. The Progressive Tennis allows players to play quickly benefits of playing on Chicopee’s HarTru clay courts. technique (the way you hit the ball) that you use to implement these five controls will influence your March 21 and successfully. In Progressive Tennis, the Har-Tru Clay Courts philosophy is that tennis is a great and fun game shot outcome (what the ball did). Usually it is a very The material used on HarTru Tennis courts comes Mini Mountain Movie to play and the quicker and more skillfully a player simple and quick adjustment to your technique that from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. It is can play the more fun it is. Each stage not only has will result with a major change giving you consistent Marathon and Photo billion-year-old Pre-Cambrian met basalt that is specific equipment to aid success, but particular good shots. For instance, if the ball goes into the net mined, crushed, screened and mixed in precise skills to develop as well. It is recommended a Game- too often, try increasing the low to high path of your Contest proportions to produce a stable but porous surface. Based Approach be used. The coach’s job is to get racquet at impact. If you get frustrated with your The stability happens because the tiny particles are them to play, and help them learn to play better. tennis because of unforced errors, book a lesson. It angular and graded. Smaller particles fill in between is quick and painless. You might even like to learn March 28-29

larger particles but do not lock up and porous by more of the simple principles of tennis or learn how CSRA Pro Snowcross Simply put, “Progressive Tennis” is used as a allowing water to enter between the particles. The to add spin to your serve or ground strokes. The developmental tool to allow young children to particles are hard like industrial diamonds. more I learn about tennis, the more I love the game improve their overall tennis skills faster so they can The granular HarTru surface is a shock-absorbing and want to learn more. Tennis is an evolving sport transition to the regular court with more ease. The cushion by allowing players to slide into their with new techniques, tactics and technology with new balls also help adult beginners and seniors as returns; thus preventing joint-jarring stops as on which to keep up-to-date. these balls are slower and easier to react to the ball. hard court surfaces. Studies show that players are The child’s racquet length is determined by holding seven times less likely to be injured on surfaces Hopefully now you have more insight and the grip of the racquet so that the racquet hangs allowing sliding. In the USA, junior training centres knowledge of the wonderful SPORT FOR LIFE! Includes: down to the ground at their side. The racquet should are using HarTru surfaces to train the youth as the End of Season Tune Up Special •Edge Sharpening not touch the ground but be an inch above the HarTru surface is easier on the growth plates in the •Wax Application ground. Chicopee teaching is based on Progressive young bodies and thus causing less long-lasting Pricing Valid from •Binding Check and Lubrication Tennis. $ injuries to the future players. Over 30-year-old March 1st-April 12th •Wax removal in the fall players are able to compete in tournaments and play 30.00 The best way to care for your board this summer ...Chicopee Tech Shop Buy your membership and register for Lesson Programs & Camps online @ Buy your membership and register for Lesson Programs & Camps online @ www.skichicopee.com www.skichicopee.com What’s Next? The Chicopee Green Season “FORE” There’s something new in the air this spring…

In the midst of enjoying the winter season at new permanent location, which will feature more Spring , Summer, and Fall will also see visits from After helping local riders and bike enthusiasts requires no previous experience to enjoy, carries in the spirit of fun, and leave the environment as Chicopee, it’s important to be up to date on all the dirt jumps, bigger pump tracks, a “street feature” numerous Corporate groups, school groups, and find a place to call home last summer, Chicopee a miniscule expense to get into and play, can be you find it. fun that’s headed your way this spring. Many skiers section, as well as a full beginners’ area. Lessons, teams. Chicopee’s Adventure Challenge Course, is proud to be launching another new & exciting enjoyed alone or in groups, and has tremendous Chicopee’s course will undergo the design phase and boarders who enjoy the slopes in the winter camps, clinics, and programs will all be available. Beach Volleyball courts, Tennis Courts, Disc Golf facility for 2009. family appeal. Disc Golf courses also blend in late winter, and will see action in terms of the don’t know about everything that is available If you are a biker of any kind, you really must come Course, and Bike Trails, make awesome venues for a This year, the new thing in the air will be discs. seamlessly into the natural environment in which installation in early spring; getting out to enjoy a to them at Chicopee during our warm weather and check out the park. It really is fun for all ages. wide variety of teambuilding events, office socials, Flying discs to be more precise… and not of the they are built. Aside from occasionally cutting the round will be possible in the spring of 2009. seasons. There’s a reason we’re Your Year Round Day passes and memberships will be available… parties, and educational programs. If you manage grass, Disc Golfers use natural obstacles such as alien abduction variety! Chicopee is excited to be If you are looking for something fun to do Playground! staff, teach kids, are launching a full 18 with the family, a teambuilding event part of a team, or simply Our summer hole Disc Golf course. for your office, an out of classroom enjoy having fun… you camps are now Chicopee has experience for your school, or simply really need to come available for partnered with want to come out and try something new, check us out. registration once the Waterloo this is really something you will want to again. If the And there’s more in Organization of Disc experience this summer. Chicopee will summer of 2008 the works… Chicopee Sports to deliver a be hosting daily walk-on play, as well as was any indication, will be unveiling new full service Disc Golf putting together awesome teambuilding these camps will programs for the spring Facility. Chicopee’s tournaments for corporate groups, and be some of the summer and fall that course will be cooperative programs for schools. Be sure most popular in the will be targeted towards the first for the to stay posted as more information will be region. With 1000 kids, adults, families, Kitchener – Waterloo shared in the weeks to come. campers visiting and corporate groups. region, adding to Chicopee is excited to continually develop Chicopee in 2008, You’ll want to explore the existence of is fun & exciting offering of programs and this summer will fitness programs, bike 2 other smaller activities… we are always pursuing new most definitely classes & programs, courses in Guelph ideas in the name of fun… Chicopee, Your be an exciting tournaments, birthday and Cambridge. Year Round Playground. one. Camps are party options, and much Chicopee is proud to available in 3 more! be able to boast that unique streams – Stay tuned because we will be the only Multi Sport, Biking, there will be lots facility operating and Tennis; with of action going on with a full clubhouse, a huge variety of this summer with disc rentals & sales, trees, and shrubs, water, and rock as challenges age ranges and opportunities for public tournaments, camps, corporate events, that must be dealt with. Courses are not specialty programs everyone to get involved. Chicopee is a self and school programs. Chicopee’s course will truly look for them on sale later this winter! manicured, pesticides are not used. An outing on available within each stream. Chicopee’s camps sustaining operation that is always focused on have it all! keep the kids coming back for more! Chicopee’s new 18 hole Frisbee golf course will the Disc Golf course lets you explore the outdoors reinventing itself and continually delivering fun for Disc Golf is a grass roots sport quickly growing in also begin accepting visitors in the spring of ’09. as it exists, with no damage or alterations. The spring will see the re-opening of Chicopee’s everyone. popularity. Played in a similar manner to the Golf The article in this newsletter provides a little more Disc golf is typically a slightly faster paced game, BIKE PARK. 2008 was its inaugural year, and game we all know, Disc Golfers use specialized insight into this project… definitely something with a full round taking anywhere from 2 to 3 proved to be a HUGE hit with bikers of all ages Frisbees to work their way to the target, and aim worth a read! hours. Rules are simple, as is course etiquette. from all over southwestern Ontario. 2009 promises for a trap-like basket rather than a hole. Disc Golf Players are simply asked to enjoy themselves, play to deliver even more excitement. Our park has a has become popular because it is an activity that

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